By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Ooni is a fun band with a fun name and a fun sound—you just about can’t say “Ooni” without smiling, and you can’t listen to them without doing so either. This five-piece indie pop outfit started out in 2012 as Crocodile, the name Gianni Sarmiento used to release his solo demos, and gradually evolved into a full-fledged band, now including members Erik Gatlin, Savannah Shanks, […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist The Cover Letter has been widely praised by publications like the Austin Chronicle and Music Connection Magazine for being one of the best rising stars of the Austin indie folk-rock scene. The band formed in 2013 when college roommates Jacob Shipman and Jarrod Nall decided to take on a musical fresh start, and the two soon began finding new additions, which now amount to the […]
By Hannah Wisterman Web Editor It is 1905, and a black seamstress yearns for love. The problem: she loves a Jewish textile merchant, and at 35 years old, is running out of time to find a suitable husband. This is the story of Esther, the leading lady of Intimate Apparel, Texas State’s newest mainstage production, written by Lynn Nottage. The play is the first play performed in the Patti Strickel […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is the quintessential sad song, and has thus made appearances in “The West Wing”, “NCIS”, “House”, “Criminal Minds”, and on and on and on. When my high school football team lost the homecoming game my senior year, it was this song that my best friend and I played on the truck ride home. It has made it to […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Artist: Shy Girls Album: Salt Release Date: January 16, 2017 Website: http://shygirlsmusic.com/ Dan Vidmar, better known by his stage name Shy Girls, has slowly been building hype for his first full length album Salt over the course of four years, since he released his first single “Under Attack”. The track garnered massive positive reception, and ever since, the industry has had its eyes on the […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist In 2013, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby hit theaters. Almost immediately, the “Roaring 20s” theme spread like wildfire from event to event. Fringe dresses, flapper-style headbands, and fonts to replicate vintage typography ran rampant. Among the fads, was a genre of music that had previously only gotten a brief spotlight in one-off TV commercials and background tracks: electro swing. Electro swing is basically what it says […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Many of us were but wee babes in 2007, so the events of that year seem hazy and unreal. Did Britney Spears really go after the paparazzi with an umbrella? Did all those Hollywood writers just up and refuse to work? Was Spiderman 3 even a real movie? Among all the weirdness, there is at least one solid thing to hang onto: 2007 was a […]
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